On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 11:29:15PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hey Jonas :-)
Jonas, ping: any chance of uploading this? > On Thu, 2022-11-17 at 18:45 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > What helps the most, and also seems possibly, is to name it > > "delta" - just not right now - and with that long-term plan I think > > it > > is double confusing to introduce a _third_ name (since the name > > "git-delta" has already been introduced by some downstreams). > > Well the best would be if upstream could give another name, but if > that's unlikely... this might be the best option. The executable name is free. > > Oke way you can help is to initiate the process of (attempting to) kick > > out (or alternatively rename) current package "delta" from Debian. > I'm not really sure whether I like this either. ;-) > > I had a small look at the current "delta" package, and while the > package is maintained by the QA group and the upstream website > (http://delta.tigris.org/) named in the copyright file seems dead... > the program might be still useful to some people... and it had the name > first. Its use is basically mandatory any time you submit a bug to gcc, thus there's no chance it goes away -- even if indeed no one is stepping up for full-time maintenance. It's just code that works well enough, and doesn't seem to require new upstream updates basically ever. > Asking them now to rename,... well even if done politely, they may feel > somehow obligated to do... or even drop the package at all, which I > think would be bad. A package rename would take at least a couple of Debian releases, thus isn't something that works in a reasonable timeframe. Thus, you'd need to upload as git-delta or such now, then maybe be able to take over the name in the future... Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Quis trollabit ipsos trollos? ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
